Chapter 1: The Dilemma

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"Is this Madeh fighting a war or a family?" Gao Hongsheng moved the tenfold military binoculars in his hand away from his eyes, and couldn't help but curse in a careful low voice.

Looking up through the grass, the sun hanging in mid-air glanced at the "battlefield" in front of him with his eyes, threw his glasses on the grass, reached out and dragged the fishing backpack beside him, took out a ham sausage from it, bit the package of the ham sausage with his teeth, listened to the monotonous gunfire in the distance, and used binoculars to look at the two sides of the firefight.

Wait, no way.

Whoever let himself calculate everything, but he didn't calculate the crossing location he chose with his heart, and it turned out to be a battlefield of war.

In fact, Gao Hongsheng can't be blamed for this, because who would have thought that there were bandits entrenched in this place more than a hundred years ago.

You must know that this place is only more than 40 kilometers away from Jishi, and it can be said that it is under the nose of the government, and it can be entrenched by bandits, does this cost human life?

What is even more unfortunate is that the only exit from this large valley is now blocked by six sentry posts sent by the official army.

This valley Gao Hongsheng is interested in not too far from the road, just seven or eight miles, and there is a dirt road from a long time ago, just a few hundred meters before the valley mouth of the valley.

The valley mouth is not too big, more than 20 meters wide, and in front of the valley mouth are two small mountain bags, just enough to cover the valley mouth tightly, so that on the dirt road, the valley mouth is not visible at all.

The valley is made up of three hills surrounded by a father leading two children, hand in hand, and a clearing comes out in the middle.

The clearing in the middle of the valley is not very large, about three or four football fields or more, the terrain is gentle, thick with mountain mud, overgrown with weeds and bushes.

The three hills are steep on the outside and gentle on the inside, and the side facing the outside is steep, and in some places it can even be described as a cliff.

Along the stream that flows from the mouth of the valley, through the mouth of the valley like a tooth, you enter the valley, the valley opposite the hill is the highest, about seven or eight hundred meters high, the gentle mountain slope extends to the halfway point of the mountain, the mountain suddenly becomes steep, a zigzag mountain road winds all the way to the top of the mountain.

The two mountains next to them are not high, that is, three or four hundred meters, and the side of the valley is quite gentle and can be effortless. Climb along a gentle mountain path to the top of two hills.

But if you want to climb over the top of the mountain to reach the outside of the valley, it will be difficult to go down for dozens of meters, either cliffs or cliffs, and there is no road at all.

In later generations, this valley was contracted to individuals to raise pheasants, and it became a chicken farm. Later, I don't know what happened, and the chicken farm went yellow. Because this place is so remote, no one will come to contract or anything in the future, so it will be completely deserted.

After Gao Hongsheng was selected here, he carefully inspected it several times.

The valley is lush and full of tall trees. On the gentle slope to the south, there are several adobe chicken coops and several adobe houses in a clearing. Of course, the roofs, window frames, and door frames of the chicken coop and adobe houses have long been missing, and they are probably taken away by the farmers in the surrounding villages.

Now, if it weren't for the surrounding mountains, Gao Hongsheng would have thought that he had come to the wrong place.

Because the valley in front of me is bare, except for some weeds and shrubs, there is not even a tree that is more than six or seven meters high.

At present, the unfortunate thing is that Gao Hongsheng is trapped, and the six soldiers who look like officers and soldiers are blocking the mouth of the valley, cutting off the possibility of Gao Hongsheng wanting to sneak out of the valley.

What's even more depressing is that Gao Hongsheng didn't even dare to walk around at will, so he could only honestly climb in this low-lying recess, under the bushes.

Because the place where he is staying now is really good, it is on a halfway mountainside not far after entering the valley, and above the two ends of the valley mouth more than a thousand meters behind him, there are a group of sentries guarding where they are, so that Gao Hongsheng just wants to move, and he should pay attention to the sentinels at the mouth of the valley.

Gao Hongsheng, who was depressed, was now in his heart, and he scolded the officers and soldiers who had big braids on their heads and wrapped them in buns, and the word "brave" written on their backs.

The gang on the top of the high mountain looked like a group of bandits composed of peasants who had just laid down their hoes. More than 40 peasants with messy broken guns and more than 20 broadswords and spears on top of them actually fought with these soldiers wearing Qing Dynasty uniforms for more than half a day.

From nine o'clock in the morning to two o'clock in the afternoon, the waste officers and soldiers had no way to deal with those peasants-like bandits.

What's even more ridiculous is that after attacking three times, they didn't rush to a place two hundred meters away from the bandits once, each time they were three or four hundred meters away, standing in several rows, and then using all kinds of broken guns, rushing at the top of the mountain is a crackling bombardment, and then, there was no more, these wastes waited until the bandits on the mountain fought back, and directly retreated.

What's even more ridiculous is that there is also a group of soldiers with big knives and spears, and they also shouted and mixed in with the soldiers with guns, and rushed up, but as long as the guns rang out above, these soldiers wielding big knives and spears turned around and threw down their comrades with guns and ran down first, and the one who ran was fast! Gao Hongsheng gritted his teeth with hatred.

The bandits on the mountain did not injure a few, and the officers and soldiers arrived at the camp with more than 20 broken feet and broken injuries, lying in the camp and humming.

It's not okay to fight, these officers and soldiers can really eat until they eat.

At noon, the officers and soldiers buried the pot and began to make rice.

Gao Hongsheng has never seen the ancients marching and fighting, most of the movies and television are fleeting, when has it been so clear and detailed in front of him.

That director has eaten too much, and he can give you a detailed picture of the detailed process of a soldier burying a pot and cooking.

Burying the pot is really burying the pot. At the beginning, Gao Hongsheng thought that it was the same as in modern times, find a few large rocks or directly use soil on the ground, surround a circle, and then use a pile of soil around it, leave a flue and a mouth to fill wood, sit on the cauldron, and the fire will be over.

But these officers and soldiers are not like this, they are really buried in the pot. Dig a large circular pit slightly smaller than the pot directly in the ground, dig a long soil groove at each end of the pit, and the soil groove leads to the top of the large pit. At the other end, dig an inclined plane that extends diagonally to the bottom of the pit, then sit down on the big round pit, cover the trough with a wooden board covered with mud, and a chimney will come out.

Put some firewood into the pit from the slope, and when you put a little fire, the smoke from the burning of the firewood in the pit came out from a distance along the trough, and you couldn't choke the cooks at all.

It is more particular than cooking in the field now, after all, when cooking in the field now, the chimney does not do it, and it is just the end of the pot with an opening, and the tears of cooking are often smoked, but people can't choke at all.

It's just that these waste soldiers are too good to eat, and Gao Hongsheng who watched it wondered if he was wrong.

The big bowl is so big! I hate it to be the size of half a basin now.

A large bowl of multigrain rice mixed with sorghum and corn for one person, a large bowl of pointed topping, drizzled with a little floating vegetable leaves, and no meat at all.

Gao Hongsheng from afar looked at those soldiers with a telescope, a pair of chopsticks were like flying, leaving an afterimage, and then piled up in the sea bowl like a hill of multigrain rice, and it fell down slowly.

After a while, I heard a dense chopsticks hitting the big bowl from a distance, and the movement like a storm was blowing, and then I stood up one by one, and ran to the cauldron in a hurry.

There were even a few fights on the edge of the stove, and later it was an official who went over, and gave a few whips to those soldiers who fought before they were suppressed.

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